“The Center for Climate Psychology is the Deep Ecologist’s final refuge. It is other worldly, worshiping Nature as if mankind was the plague. But under a human betterment standard, Nature can be just fine–and preserved from wind, solar, and battery industrialization.”
The Centre for Climate Psychology (“nurturing collective wisdom in times of collective upheaval”) is layering alarm on alarm with its peculiar, futile, wasteful mission. Instead of questioning its assumption of climate crisis due to modern industrial living, the group marches on the Road to Psychological Serfdom.
CCP describes their urgency:
…What we feed our minds and hearts can nourish or diminish our personal health and well being. As we move to meet an ever threatened world by climate catastrophe and changing political landscapes, how do we meet the coming challenges with resilience?
“I still don’t love talking about climate adaptation. I wish we didn’t have to…. I’m not admitting defeat. But I am realistic that we need to adapt too.” ( – Tim McPhie, below)
In the post-Net Zero CO2 world (yes, here we are), the new argument is every-little-bit counts “to avoid the worst effects of climate change.” Forget precision or cost/benefit analysis; it is a qualitative ‘deep ecology‘ argument. They know that the real math is daunting with negative CO2 emissions being required starting decades ago.
Brave talk about energy transformation will continue, but reality is creeping in. Consider this from Tim McPhie, a five-year climate communication expert at the European Commission. “I’ll admit it,”, he posted on social media, “I was never really comfortable talking about climate adaptation.”…
“Profuse government grants, loans, and tax breaks supported Sunnova from the beginning. The public needs to know where the money went and why founder/CEO John Berger and a few others at the top made out like bandits, while just about everyone else bit the dust.”
Sunnova was all hat, no cattle. All sizzle, no steak. Long on DEI, short on profits. Long on government, short on consumer value.
And a lot of “Net Zero” for investors. And potentially voided contracts for more than 400,000 rooftop customers if tax credits go away under current legislation under debate. [1]
Yesterday, Sunnova International declared bankruptcy, or in their Enronish PR world, “Strategic Action to Facilitate Value-Maximizing Sale Process.”
The company never had a quarterly profit, existing on political fumes and gullible “green” customers.…